deathful
Americanadjective
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deadly; fatal.
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resembling death; deathlike.
Etymology
Origin of deathful
First recorded in 1200–50, deathful is from the Middle English word deethful. See death, -ful
Example Sentences
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No cry for help parted the pale lips, but those wide eyes were luminous with a love whose fire that deathful river could not quench.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 29, March, 1860 by Various
Against the breaking heart, and the bursting head; against all the dismal lassitude, and deathful faintness and sleeplessness, and whirlingness, and craziness, still he like a demigod bore up.
From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman
The stern-brow'd tyrant roars and tears the ground His watchful horns portend the deathful wound.
From The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem by Camões, Luís de
That we were victims of a cunning plot, that the deathful Si-Fan had at last wreaked its vengeance upon Nayland Smith I could not doubt.
From The Hand Of Fu-Manchu Being a New Phase in the Activities of Fu-Manchu, the Devil Doctor by Rohmer, Sax
An hour later we stood in the silent room, with its drawn blinds and its deathful atmosphere, looking down at the pale, intellectual face of Henry Stradwick, Lord Southery, the greatest engineer of his day.
From The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu by Rohmer, Sax
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